[For] New York November 11^th 1785 In conversing with you Some time Since in respect to Settling the accounts of the Officers who were prisoners I think you informed me you generally pursue the principle of allowing their depreciation of pay to Commence from the 1^st September 1777 agreeable to the accounts formed by me when Auditor for the army, as Some of those Officers are Slow to Settle with the United States. I have to request your Information relative to your mode of Settlement, this enquiry arises in consequence of one of those accounts formerly Settled by me being revised this day and closed presented by Lieu^t Henry Clayton of Colonel Harper's Regiment Flying Camp in which I have admitted his pay in Specie to the period abovementioned, if this Officer has been allowed depreciation prior to that date, you will please to inform me, and if in your power deduct it from his depreciation. I wish you to Send me a copy of Cap^t W^m Ferguson's Acct of Depreciation as he has put a Settlement to make with us which cannot be done without your assistance. You will please to write me upon a [undecipherable] occasion — [undecipherable] Price and be good [undecipherable] the enclosed to my Father in law [at] the Corner of [undecipherable] alley Market Street, and [undecipherable] W^m St. [undecipherable] Howell [Nicholson / Broadway alley Market Street, and Alley 40 William St.]